Whenever we were going somewhere in our car, my mum always told me that the car would not start unless I was wearing my seat-belt. Of course, she meant that she would not start the car, but until I was about ten years old, I thought that seat-belts were somehow connected to a car's engine.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- That if you didn't have your seat belt buckled up when the car was in motion, it would crash.— Dave Smith
- I thought that when I grew up I HAD to start wearing polyester like my mom.— levi lady
- i used to believe (when i was little) i could make the wind stop and start by saying, "stop" and "start"— Ali
- I never knew why boys had to lift up the toilet seat...until my friend told me that boys had bad aim.Anon
- I used to think you could get pregnant by sitting on a toilet seat.— Lisa
- I used to think that boy's lifted the toilet seat to pee because their asses were too big.— sydo